education
NEWS STORY: Books on Jehovah’s Witnesses mutilated at seminary libraries
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service INDIANAPOLIS _ At least three seminaries in Indiana have been hit by a wave of mutilations of books dealing with the Jehovah’s Witnesses, according to librarians at the schools. Officials at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, at Anderson University in Anderson and at Concordia Seminary in Fort Wayne said they […]
NEWS STORY: St. Meinrad College closing, ending legacy of educating priests-to-be
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (UNDATED) _ For 140 years, the Benedictine monks of St. Meinrad Archabbey have been training men for the priesthood in the rolling hills of southern Indiana outside of Louisville. But part of that legacy _ and a piece of Catholic culture _ will end a year from now when the […]
NEWS FEATURE: American Jews’ roots preserved at new Yiddish book center
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service AMHERST, Mass. _ In the middle of a rolling apple orchard here sits an odd-shaped wooden building seemingly better suited for Eastern Europe’s Carpathian Mountains than for a college town of 30,000 in the foothills of the Berkshires. It is the new home of the National Yiddish Book Center, the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Another kind of Christian school alternative
By Carrie Cassidy — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service HARRISBURG, Pa. _ No controversial library books. No skirmishes over teaching evolution vs. creationism. No chance that birth control methods might be explained in health class. No debates over prayer’s place in the school day. These arguments for forsaking public schools for an alternative _ increasingly, for many parents, a […]
NEWS STORY: In a reversal, biology teachers alter statement supporting evolution
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ After first refusing to do so, the National Association of Biology Teachers has dropped the words”unsupervised”and”impersonal”from its official definition of evolution. The group’s eight-person board of directors voted unanimously Saturday (Oct. 11) to alter the definition contained in its two-year-old statement in support of teaching evolution just three […]
COMMENTARY: The creationism vs. evolution fight comes to North Carolina
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com) UNDATED _ Legislators in North Carolina are proving that battles rarely end when they are fought indirectly. The issue at the state capitol in Raleigh was evolution. The state […]
TOP STORY: MEMOIR: At work in the `bookfields’ of the Lord
By RNS Blog Editor — August 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) I still enjoy the reaction I get when I tell people I once sold Bibles. Most folks give a quick squint of skepticism and an uneasy grin as they replay in their minds Ryan O’Neal and little Tatum flim-flamming their way across America in the movie “Paper Moon.” I […]
TOP STORY: JEWISH HIGH HOLY DAYS: Away from home for the High Holy Days
By RNS Blog Editor — August 27, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When a research project kept Washington University junior Deborah Schnitzer at school in St. Louis on the Jewish new year, she and her apartment-mates welcomed 25 guests to an after-services potluck brunch. To keep from feeling homesick, the guests consulted their mothers for long-distance help with recipes _ everything […]
NEWS FEATURE: More and more college students majoring in religion
By Rachel Marie Stone — April 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-As Khyati Joshi, 25, walks to class at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she flinches when she hears a siren.”I never know when a bomb will explode,”she said. But Joshi refuses to leave.”Being in Israel gets inside you,”she said.”You become involved in things. As I see the struggle that goes on […]
TOP STORY: TIBETAN BUDDHISM: A sea change in Tibetan Buddhism’s links to the past
By Tim Murphy — April 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service DHARAMSALA, India (RNS)-When the Dalai Lama seeks insights into the future, he consults his oracle, a medium who wears an elaborate costume and headpiece that together weigh more than 100 pounds. The use of oracles, on the face of it, would appear to show that the mystical side of Tibetan […]
Maverick theologian Matthew Fox quits Holy Names College, strikes out on own
By RNS Blog Editor — February 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service OAKLAND, Calif. (RNS)-Breaking his last formal tie with Roman Catholicism, maverick theologian Matthew Fox will leave Oakland’s College of the Holy Names in May to establish a new, independent educational institution, the”University of Creation Spirituality.” Holy Names, a small Catholic college, has been home to Fox’s Institute in Culture and […]
COMMENTARY: Modern morality tale sheds light on the value of life
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister who has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ It wasn’t supposed to happen to them. Young, attractive and intelligent, Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. were expected […]
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